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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Today the Cherokee Nations is more than 355,000 citizens strong, young and old. To be eligible for Cherokee Nation citizenship, individuals must provide documents connecting them to an enrolled direct ancestor who is listed on the Dawes Roll. CDIB/Tribal Citizenship is traced through natural parents. In cases of adoption, CDIB/Citizenship must be proven through a biological parent to an ancestor registered on the Dawes Roll.

https://www.cherokee.org/Services/Tribal-Citizenship[/quote]

This is great information about the rules now, thank you.

Question for us:   Does someone have to be a full member of a recognized tribe to consider their ethnicity to be Native American or American Indian now?

Now that Latino is an ethnicity question, and you have to choose your race separately - American Indian, Black or African American, Asian  or Asian American, Caucasian, what happens to the people who are Latino and NOT Caucasian, Black or African American, or Asian/Asian American?  Do they have to be considered a member of a tribe to be considered American Indian or Native American?

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Those have ALWAYS been the rules. Always. The Dawes Rolls are the definition of being a member of the Cherokee tribe. The Eastern Band of Cherokee have different rules.

The Dawes Rolls (or Final Rolls of Citizens and Freedmen of the Five Civilized Tribes, or Dawes Commission of Final Rolls) were created by the United States Dawes Commission. The Commission, authorized by United States Congress in 1893, forced the Five Civilized Tribes to agree to a land allotment plan and dissolution of the reservation system.

Tribal citizens were enrolled under several categories:

Citizen by Blood
New Born Citizen by Blood
Minor Citizens by Blood
Citizen by Marriage
Freedmen (persons formerly enslaved by Native Americans and/or adopted by the Cherokee tribe)
New Born Freedmen
Minor Freedmen
Delaware Indians (those adopted by the Cherokee tribe were enrolled as a separate group within the Cherokee)
More than 250,000 people applied for membership, and the Dawes Commission enrolled just over 100,000. An act of Congress on April 26, 1906, closed the rolls on March 5, 1907. An additional 312 persons were enrolled under an act approved August 1, 1914.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dawes_Rolls[/quote]

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